We just released the fifth and latest volume of our newsletter, Understanding Your Kid! This time, we feature some of our lab's achievements as well as exciting new findings by our URECA and FYP students!

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We are proud to share that our URECA student, Ng Kailin, Joan, has won 3rd place in the Education and Teaching category of the annual DISCOVER URECA@NTU Poster Exhibition and Competition. Well done and congratulations Joan!

You can find out more about her project below.

We just released the fourth volume of our newsletter, Understanding Your Kid! This time, we feature some continuation of studies from the previous volume, as well as exciting new findings by our URECA students! There are also some of our ongoing research projects that you can sign up for. ​ Click below to read it now!

Our URECA student Chwee Yun Hui presented her URECA project at the World Conference of Undergraduate Research in April 2023. She discussed her findings on whether children learnt about novel categories better when pedagogical questions, compared to naive questions, are used.  Well done and congratulations to Yun Hui! 

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You can find out more about her project below!

Our URECA students, Ong Jing Ting and Joy Angelina Tan, presented their URECA projects at the ICUR-URECA Conference on 28 September 2022! Well done and congratulations to Jing Ting and Joy! 

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You may read about their projects in our Aug 2022 newsletter below.

Our Research Scientist, Dr. Yang Yang, is featured in SRCD Asian Caucus in their monthly spotlight of members who have made outstanding contributions to their research fields. Dr. Yang shared on her research journey and her research interest in cross-cultural studies on children's emotion understanding. Click below to find out more!

Our ex-URECA student and current part-time RA, Chwee Yun Hui, presented her URECA project at the ICUR-URECA Conference on 29 September 2021! Well done and congratulations Yun Hui! This is part of our project on questioning in teaching and learning. Click below to find out more about it in our projects page!

Our research scientist, Dr. Yu Yue, spoke on radio station Capital 95.8 on 7 September 2021, sharing about children’s development of free will!

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Our research scientist, Dr. Yang Yang, spoke on radio station Capital 95.8 about factors affecting children's mental health. 

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Our research scientist, Dr. Yu Yue spoke on radio station Singapore Today at CNA 938 discussing the impact of COVID-19 on children's mental health, sharing some of the findings from our COVID-19 household survey.

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In an interview with Hello Singapore (狮城有约) on MediaCorp Channel 8¸ Dr. Yu Yue spoke about how we can foster children’s self-control.

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The IACCP seeks to advance our understanding of how culture and psychology intersect. Our Research Scientists, Dr. Yu Yue and Dr. Yang Yang, had the privilege of presenting their studies' findings about children's endorsement of free choice and children's understanding of emotion cues from auditory stimuli at the 2024 IACCP International Congress. You can read more about their findings in the latest volume of our newsletter below!

Dr. Yu Yue was interviewed by Hello Singapore (狮城有约) on MediaCorp Channel 8 where he spoke about how limiting play areas at HDB void decks would affect children's physical and emotional development, and the problems it might bring. He also suggested some possible solutions to transform void decks to be more inclusive of all age groups.

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Our URECA students, Ong Jing Ting and Trena Chan Yun Ting presented their URECA projects at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society in July 2023. Well done and congratulations to Jing Ting and Trena! 

Click here to read up on Jing Ting's project and click below to read up on Trena's project!

Our Research Scientists Dr. Yu Yue and Dr. Yang Yang presented at the SRCD in March 2023. Dr. Yu shared about how parental autonomy granting correlated with Singaporean Chinese and Malay children's endorsement of free will. Dr. Yang discussed how Singaporean children's emotion understanding is related to social skills and academic competence. Click below to find out more!

We just released the third volume of our newsletter, Understanding Your Kid. This time, we feature many studies by our URECA students, and some of our ongoing research projects you can sign up for. 

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Our research scientist, Dr. Yang Yang, wrote a Today article on how parents can support children's social and emotional development amidst rising concerns of children's mental health, such as being open about emotions with children. Read to find out more supportive strategies that Dr. Yang Yang writes about!

Our research scientist, Dr. Yang Yang, wrote an article on emotional development in children across different cultural contexts, discussing research findings on emotion understanding in American and Chinese children! Read to find out more!

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We just released the second volume of our newsletter, Understanding Your Kid. More exciting findings await!

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Our research scientists, Dr. Yu Yue and Dr. Yang Yang wrote an article together for Lianhe ZaoBao (联合早报) on the impacts of COVID-19 on children’s mental health!

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We’re launching our lab newsletter titled Understanding your Kid, where we disseminate findings from our child development research, share resources with parents and teachers, and showcase other happenings in our lab. Check out our very first volume here!